Eclipse Automotive Tool Platform

Intent

One key activity of the Eclipse Automotive IWG is to define and provide an Eclipse Automotive Tool Platform consisting of selected existing Eclipse components that are typically required and used in the automotive industry. The intention of this platform is to provide a reference for both vendors and users of Eclipse-based automotive software design tools. It does not necessarily include much content that is really specific to automotive (at least not at the beginning), but will still be a great deal of help for the following reasons:

It points out which Eclipse projects and components are actively used in the automotive industry.

It gives an orientation regarding the Eclipse releases and component versions which Eclipse-based automotive software design tools are or should be based on.

It provides a reference enabling Eclipse-based automotive software design tools to be provided as pluggable components (update sites), as opposed to being shipped only in the form of complete products including the tool itself and the whole Eclipse platform.

The target platform definition is provided to support the following use cases:

As is usage as target platform for the development of automotive software design tools

Starting point for defining target platforms for the development of automotive software design tools that include all Eclipse Automotive Tool Platform components and complementary components from the Eclipse ecosystem

Content

The current version of the Eclipse Automotive Tool Platform is based on the Juno (Eclipse 4.2) release stream. It contains the components that are listed in the table below.

Each component is described by its name, version, status, and an optional comment. For the sake of a better overview, the components are grouped in categories. The component statuses can have the following values:

RECOMMENDED: The component is included in the Eclipse Automotive Tool Platform and recommended to be used for the development of in automotive software design tools or applications

DEPRECATED: The component is still included in the Eclipse Automotive Tool Platform to ensure backward compatibility but no longer recommended to be used in new automotive software design tools or applications

PROPOSED: The component is proposed to become a new component of the Eclipse Automotive Tool Platform and already included for evaluation purposes